London Borough of Southwark, United Kingdom

St Giles' Church, Camberwell

London Borough of Southwark, United Kingdom

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St Giles' Church, Camberwell, the parish church of this London Borough of Southwark district, is a Gothic Revival structure designed by George Gilbert Scott and William Bonython Moffatt and built in Kentish ragstone. Dedicated to Saint Giles, the patron saint of disabled people, the church's naming is connected by local tradition to a well near Camberwell Grove—possibly the source of the district's own name—which was reputed in the early nineteenth century to possess medicinal properties and thus to have inspired the saint's association with the site. A Grade II* listed building, St Giles' remains the principal parish church within the Anglican Diocese of Southwark.